For more than a decade, the industrial heartland of eastern Ukraine has been the focal point of intense battles and diplomatic disputes between Kyiv and the Kremlin. Now it could be on the table in peace talks with the United States.

Wall Street ticked modestly lower ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders.

"We are seeing accommodation more than we've seen in the past, certainly more than we saw in the last administration," Witkoff said. "And that's encouraging. Now we have to build on that."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his European allies arrive in Washington on Monday anxious to find out what Donald Trump committed to at his summit with Vladimir Putin and apprehensive that he’ll force Kyiv into making unpalatable concessions.

Steve Witkoff says Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate.

In a shift, Trump now aligns more closely with Putin than allies in Europe in calling for final talks before a ceasefire

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.

Hungary accused Ukraine of attacking and disabling a Russian oil pipeline that supplies the NATO ally, and fired a warning to Kyiv about its reliance on Hungarian electricity supplies. The Orban government in Budapest has criticized Western involvement in helping Ukraine to defend against the Russian invasion,